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Saturday, March 31, 2018 - 18:30
Written by:
Sebastian Diaz Morales
Cinematography:
Niels Boon
Editing:
Sebastian Diaz Morales
Sound:
Dyno Hedges
Music:
Claudio F. Baroni
Producer:
Sebastian Diaz Morales
Production:
Mondrian Fonds, Sonsbeek '16, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
Romanian Premiere
Guided by Jean Baudrillard’s notion that reality is a construct and the world has disappeared behind its own representation, The Lost Object focuses on the objects located in a film studio set and the film crew who film them. The absence of diegetic sound, the intentionally odd soundtrack as well as the use of extremely slow camera movements (slowed down even more in editing), make the set itself and reality of the shooting process (fictionalized by being present in the film) appear equally strange, distant and artificial. Hence, Sebastian Diaz Morales’ work reflects both on its own fictionality and on that of the world beyond it. The viewer is left with the challenge to make sense of the glass cubes recurring in the film. (Ioana Florescu, BIEFF 2018)
Director:
Contact:
sdm[at]sebastiandiazmorales[dot]com
Festivals, awards:
- International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2017
- International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2017
- Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin 2017
Filmmaker’s statement:
Today reality is manipulation. In a certain way, it already is imaginary. Reality has been created the way we want it to be. In truth, we're directing it ourselves. We assign meaning and order to things, and that's how we comprehend them. In most cases, however, people assign just one meaning to things, and they're not open to different interpretations. When I turn to reality, I change it, I manipulate with it, I try to discover new conceptual meanings. (Sebastian Diaz Morales)
Today reality is manipulation. In a certain way, it already is imaginary. Reality has been created the way we want it to be. In truth, we're directing it ourselves. We assign meaning and order to things, and that's how we comprehend them. In most cases, however, people assign just one meaning to things, and they're not open to different interpretations. When I turn to reality, I change it, I manipulate with it, I try to discover new conceptual meanings. (Sebastian Diaz Morales)